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Terrains and other geometric models have been traditionally stored locally. Their remote access presents the characteristics that are a combination of file serving and realtime streaming like audio-visual media. This paper presents a terrain streaming system based upon a client server architecture to handle heterogeneous clients over low-bandwidth networks. We present an efficient representation for handling terrains streaming. We design a client-server system that utilizes this representation to stream virtual environments containing terrains and overlayed geometry efficiently. We handle dynamic entities in environment and the synchronization of the same between multiple clients. We also present a method of sharing and storing terrain annotations for collaboration between multiple users. We conclude by presenting preliminary performance data for the streaming system.
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Deb, S., Bhattacharjee, S., Patidar, S., Narayanan, P.J. (2006). Real-Time Streaming and Rendering of Terrains. In: Kalra, P.K., Peleg, S. (eds) Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4338. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11949619_25
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